Re: Make Gitweb behave like Apache mod_userdir
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Nov 17, 2009, 20:15 UTC
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Sylvain Rabot <sylvain@abstraction.fr> writes:
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> +If you want gitweb to act a bit like UserDir mod in apache, knowing, http://<host>/~<user>
> +will list all git repos of <user> located in a special directory in his home (/home/<user>/gitweb/),
> +do the following steps :
> +
> +Add this to the VirtualHost section of your apache configuration file :
> +
> + RewriteRule ^/~([^\/]+)/?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/gitweb/,L,PT]
> +
> +Modify your gitweb.conf file, located at /etc/gitweb.conf in this example, with :
> +
> + $projectroot = $ENV{'GITWEB_PROJECTROOT'} || "/path/to/the/defaul/project/root";
> +
> +Thus, each user with a gitweb folder in his home will be able to browse it with gitweb.
> +/!\ The gitweb folder and user's home folder must be readable by the webserver user.Wouldn't it be a good idea to somehow make this work well together with the --user-path feature of git-daemon?
Perhaps the recommended name given in the example shouldn't be ~/gitweb, but more like ~/public_git, as this is like ~/public_html but for git repositories. Then the end users will browse
http://my.site/~gitster/public_git/git.git
and gitweb can be told to show
clone URL: git://my.site/~gitster/public_git/git.git
on the page. If the site administrator runs git-daemon with --user-path set to public_git, everything will work seamlessly, no?